Zoe with Garen
How to Synergize Zoe and Garen
based on 1,705 Zoe with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zoe Garen Synergy Summary
Best Zoe vs Garen Counter Build
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Early Items
Core Zoe Items
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Guide to Synergizing Zoe and Garen
Tips for Playing as Zoe with Garen
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
Advice to Understand How Garen Will Play
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Zoe Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Zoe in LoL
The Zoe Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Zoe sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Garen helps Zoe perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zoe tries to synergize with Garen, she gets a small increase in her complete damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Garen provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Zoe is played together with Garen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Garen. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Garen.
Additionally, when Zoe plays with Garen on the same team, she often takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Garen does a poor job of protecting Zoe during teamfights.
Synergies between Zoe and Garen
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Is Zoe better when played alongside Garen?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Zoe that will 100% of the time be her best synergy. Yet, Garen is a decent teammate for Zoe. By being on the same team as Zoe, he improves their win rate by 1.6% to 48.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a good bond between Zoe and Garen that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Garen has a lower difficulty than Zoe. That means Zoe players don't need to be very careful when arranging Garen allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by aligning Zoe and Garen together, you may not be giving your team enough utility. Make sure to include other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Garen teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zoe in order to pair well with Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to focus on in your Zoe and Garen synergy build include Horizon Focus, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe bought at least these three great items in her build, she did much better when paired up with Garen than with most other typical builds. In fact, Zoe had an average win rate of 48.6% helping carry Garen with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Zoe players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.6% win rate overall.
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